Showing posts with label gurn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gurn. Show all posts

Jun 11, 2008

Photoshop Flailing: Gurn, Baby, Gurn

Once again, I focus my time and hone in on my photoshopping skills. This time, my muse was a recent post on gurning. I wanted to take a look and see which fictional characters would be natural gurners. While the execution (shopping) may have been less than perfect, the ideas nonetheless startle me. To the shops!

First up is Hannibal Lecter, who is not so much doing a gurn as he is scaring the crap out of me for not being restrained.

hannibalgurn
Hello, Clarice.

Jack Torrance drank a little too much of the red rum.
theshininggurn
HERE'S JOHNNY!

This one is one of the Nazi's from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
raidersgurn
Whatever you do, don't look directly at it.

And finally, Uncle Fester doing a gurn in his Sunday best.
unclefestergurn
Creepy AND Kooky.

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Jun 9, 2008

If you keep making that face, it's going to get stuck like that

Have you ever made a funny face before? Whether it be to make someone laugh, or scare a little kid on Halloween, everyone has. According to Wikipedia (the universal source of all truth), this distorted facial expression is known as a "gurn".

Some people across the pond seem to take this activity a little too seriously. In England, they have gurning competitions where the contestants have to make the most ridiculous faces they can while sticking their head through a horse collar. Picture in your mind what that looks like. Then take a look at the following world gurning champion ten years running, Tommy Mattinson, with the Queen of England:


The Queen is giving the same "wtf" expression you probably have on your face right now


I also found a few other gurning resources online (again) thanks to Wikipedia. If you want to see more gurning pictures, get your head checked check out the following links below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/3670504.stm
http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Cumbria_Traditions/Gurning/Gurning.php
http://ansaman.site88.net/secondgurnrules.html

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